What is the most cost effective way to store and access images?

Question

I use S3, just wondering if there is a platform that is hyper-optimized for storing and serving images?

brudgers · Accepted Answer

How many?How often?What size?From where?Do the missiles launch on failure to serve an image?How much are you willing to spend?When do you need it?For how long?Obviously, I am assuming it's an engineering problem.

Someone · Answer

Depends on the details. For example, AWS Glacier may be cheaper than S3, depending on the frequency the images get accessed (it probably won’t be best for you, but there’s a possibility that a mix of S3 and Glacier fits your use case better than putting everything in S3)
Glacier certainly will be slower, though.
You also may have requirements w.r.t. access time, may want a search facility, may want the ability to serve multiple image sizes, may have legal requirements such as the GDPR, copyrights that differ across the world, etc.